Validating the DwCA against GBIF

There are two ways to check whether the contents of your Darwin Core Archive meet the Darwin Core Standard.

The first is to run local tests on the files inside a local folder directory that will be used to build a Darwin Core Archive. check_directory() allows us to check csv files and xml files in the directory against Darwin Core Standard criteria, using the same checking functionality that is built into the set_ functions. This function is especially beneficial if you have standardized your data to Darwin Core headers using functions outside of galaxias / corella.

>>> galaxias.check_directory()

The second is to check whether a complete Darwin Core Archive meets institution’s Darwin Core criteria via an API. For example, we can test an archive against GBIF’s API tests.

>>> my_dwca.check_archive(archive="dwc-dwca.zip",
...                       email="your-email",
...                       username = "your-username",
...                       password = "your-password")